Comments on: Panther and Browsers Crashing

By: jra

jra — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 03:22:26 +0000

Hm. Append <, :, and &, they got eaten.

By: jra

jra — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 03:21:23 +0000

For the love of Ritchie, WHY would you name a volume “/”???? That’s not just asking for trouble, that’s demanding it. Come on now, putting / and : in filenames is a big no-no. That’s why the Finder and Save dialog put up a fight if you try to. Rename your disk to something that doesn’t already have a reserved meaning. And while you’re at it, the following are probably out too: ?*!\|>< &:

By: Rach

Rach — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:21:08 +0000

Thanks, I have been having that problem.

By: jstownsley

jstownsley — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:18:09 +0000

Toc: Just the name of the hard drive.

By: Toc

Toc — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:37:47 +0000

So I should change my mount point or the name of the hard drive?

By: jstownsley

jstownsley — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:13:55 +0000

Correct, my mistake. It looks like it’s broken on HFS+ partitions, too.

By: James

James — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:06:31 +0000

A Mac volume is not likely to be formatted as UFS. It is likely to be HFS+ with journaling.